Future U.S. President Sarah Palin shot and killed a majestic caribou right there on her reality…
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Now, as a "city folk," I am basically clueless about hunting. Like, what even is a caribou, and what did it do to you, that made you shoot it? So to me, well, Palin looked like she knew what she was doing (shooting a beast). But to people who are not clueless about hunting, and could tell the difference between a caribou and, say, a deer, or a squirrel? She looked like an amateur.

Abe Sauer, who runs the effed-up-non-urban-America beat at The Awl, collected some responses to the episode from Palin's Facebook page, the right-wing websites FreeRepublic.com and Hannity.com, and among hunters he knows. Some of their complaints:

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Neither she nor her father "sight in" the rifle, which is, uh, a thing that people who use guns do.

She's got a "varmint rifle," despite the overwhelming evidence that caribou are not "varmint."

It takes her four or five shots to hit the caribou. And caribou are big!

She doesn't bring her own weapon, and has someone else carry and load it.

Her dad, theoretically a veteran hunter, uses his gun as a walking stick, which even I can tell you is a terrible idea.

After being given her rifle, she "immediately" puts her finger on the trigger, violating "the first lesson any responsible hunter ever learns": Don't touch the trigger till you're ready to shoot.

She asks about the rifle, "Does it kick?" which is (apparently) a silly, inconsequential question.

Of course, as Sauer rightly points out, Palin would not be the first dumb-looking fake hunter in American politics. She would just be the first one with a whole reality show, all about her and her family and the state that they apparently own.